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Police Leadership in the 21st Century: Philosophy, Doctrine and Developments by Robert Adlam 9781872870243
Booksplease Price: $50.72Contains the 'Golden Rules' of Police Leadership. In Police Leadership in the Twenty-first Century the editors bring together a collection of authoritative and innovative contributions to show that:... -
The Ethics and the Economics of Minimalist Government by Timothy P. Roth 9781840646764
Booksplease Price: $222.64Because it is technically flawed and morally bankrupt, the author argues, the economist's consequence-based, procedurally detached theory of the state has contributed to the growth of government. As... -
Why Be a Catholic? by Mark Dooley 9781441110428
Booksplease Price: $36.10The Catholic Church is deep in crisis and scandal. A highly intelligent, articulate Irish commentator provides hope, encouraging people to see beyond current problems. The Catholic Church has never... -
Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction Tristan J. Rogers 9781032139500
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.98In Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction, Tristan J. Rogers argues that philosophical conservatism is a coherent and compelling set of historically rooted ideas about... -
Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming by Mark Dooley 9781472526151
RRP: $86.10Booksplease Price: $84.67Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming is Mark Dooley's attempt to offer an alternative to 'Cyberia'. It is a book about home, memory and identity. At a time when people are rapidly disengaging... -
Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age by Roger Kimball 9781566634304
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.51Confronting the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Roger Kimball in this new collection of his work explores the literary and philosophical underpinnings of modernity as well as the... -
Desire and the Female Therapist: Engendered Gazes in Psychotherapy and Art Therapy by Joy Schaverien
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70Desire and the Female Therapist is one of the first full-length explorations of erotic transference and countertransference from the point of view of the female therapist. Particular attention is... -
Finding Arcadia: Wisdom, Truth, and Love in the Classics by Paul Krause 9781680537147
Booksplease Price: $190.20The classics used to be the seminal texts of Western civilization and education. From Homer down through the Greek poets and philosophers, including the Roman poets and early Christian writers, the... -
The Critical Imagination by James Grant 9780199661794
Booksplease Price: $163.38The Critical Imagination is a study of metaphor, imaginativeness, and criticism of the arts. Since the eighteenth century, many philosophers have argued that appreciating art is rewarding because it... -
The Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode 9781666908947
Booksplease Price: $64.13Grief is a universal human response to death and loss. Mourning is an equally universally observable practice that enables the bereaved to express their grief and come to terms with the reality of... -
God, Goodness and Philosophy Harriet A. Harris 9781409428527
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82Does belief in God yield the best understanding of value? Can we provide transcendental support for key moral concepts? Does evolutionary theory undermine or support religious moralities? Is divine... -
Scientism: The New Orthodoxy by Richard N. Williams 9781474287944
Booksplease Price: $84.80Scientism: The New Orthodoxy is a comprehensive philosophical overview of the question of scientism, discussing the role and place of science in the humanities, religion, and the social sciences... -
Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America by Wilfred M. McClay 9781594037160
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $33.12Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of "place" and community. Appreciating place is essential... -
Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View by Bas C. van Fraassen 9780198248613
Booksplease Price: $176.99After introducing the empiricist point of view in philosophy of science, and the concepts and methods of the semantic approach to scientific theories, Professor van Fraassen discusses quantum theory... -
The Philosophy of Poetry by John Gibson 9780199603671
Booksplease Price: $182.39In recent years philosophers have produced important books on nearly all the major arts: the novel and painting, music and theatre, dance and architecture, conceptual art and even gardening. Poetry... -
Mind Viruses: America's Irrational Obsessions John Leake 9781510786806
RRP: $69.28Booksplease Price: $43.85In 1872, Fyodor Dostoevsky published a novel titled Demons, about a catastrophe that ensues from the nihilism that became prevalent in Russia in the 1860s.A group of young men incite chaos as they... -
Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire: Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award by Alev Scott
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR**Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule... -
The Long Night of the Watchman: Essays by Vaclav Benda, 1977-1989 by F Flagg Taylor 9781587314780
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $53.24The Long Night of the Watchman brings into English translation the writings of the renowned Czech anti-Communist dissident and Catholic thinker Vaclav Benda (1946-1999). An early signatory of Charter... -
Conversations on Art and Aesthetics by Hans Maes 9780199686100
Booksplease Price: $108.84What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret... -
Conversations on Art and Aesthetics by Hans Maes
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $56.89What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret... -
Aesthetics and Music by Andy Hamilton 9780826485199
Booksplease Price: $93.05The Continuum Aesthetics Series looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by all major art forms. Stimulating, engaging and accessible, the series offers food for thought not only for... -
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity; THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Douglas Murray 9781472979575
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.25THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Updated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful... -
The Persistence of the Ideological Lie by Daniel Mahoney 9781641773737
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $32.55The Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction... -
Love: A History by Simon May 9780300187748
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.66An illuminating exploration of how love has been shaped, idolized, and misconstrued by the West over three millennia, and how we might differently conceive it Love-unconditional, selfless,... -
Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture Geoffrey Hughes (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) 9781405152785
RRP: $174.20Booksplease Price: $157.12Political Correctness "Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single... -
Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams 9780691168609
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.21Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate... -
Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration by Charles Griswold
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $45.30Nearly everyone has wronged another. Who among us has not longed to be forgiven? Who has not struggled to forgive? Charles Griswold has written the first comprehensive philosophical book on... -
Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture Geoffrey Hughes (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) 9781405152792
RRP: $71.30Booksplease Price: $67.24Political Correctness "Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single... -
The Maudsley Reader in Phenomenological Psychiatry by Matthew R. Broome 9780521709279
RRP: $132.30Booksplease Price: $120.14The interaction between philosophy and clinical psychopathology in the form of the 'phenomenological movement' was one of the most significant events to occur in mental health over the course of the... -
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $20.33THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A WATERSTONES POLITICS PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR, 2018 The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of... -
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray 9781472942241
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $26.75THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A WATERSTONES POLITICS PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR, 2018 The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act... -
Coleridge and Contemplation by Peter Cheyne 9780198799511
Booksplease Price: $236.57Coleridge and Contemplation is a multi-disciplinary volume on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founding poet of British Romanticism, critic, and author of philosophical, political, and theological works. In... -
George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls
RRP: $32.53Booksplease Price: $26.82An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free... -
Of Time and Lamentation by Raymond Tallis 9781788211741
Booksplease Price: $64.01Time's mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In Of Time and Lamentation, Raymond... -
Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy David Fleming 9781603586467
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.39Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming's extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four... -
Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It David Fleming 9781603586481
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $58.57Lean Logic is David Fleming's masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years' work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain's most important intellectuals. A dictionary...